Speaker com­mends UNSC anti-set­tle­ment resolution

Kuwaiti par­lia­ment speaker Mar­zouq AlGhanem praised a UN Se­cu­rity Coun­cil (UNSC) resolution Fri­day that urged Is­rael to im­me­di­ately stop Jewish set­tle­ment ex­pan­sion in oc­cu­pied Pales­tinian ter­ri­to­ries. The resolution “is a step in the right di­rec­tion,” Ghanem said in a press state­ment, and was an­other tool to ex­er­cise pres­sure upon Is­rael to abide by UN res­o­lu­tions re­lated to the Arab-Is­raeli con­flict. He added that the resolution should be fol­lowed by other steps in in­ter­na­tional con­fer­ences like the In­ter-Par­lia­men­tary Union (IPU). — KUNA